Custom Clothing Printing in Gloucester and Gloucestershire
By The Velocity Wear Team
For custom clothing printing in Gloucester, rugby club kit and embroidered engineering workwear are the two largest requirements. Velocity Wear produces both from a 20-piece minimum with mixed sizes, delivered across Gloucester, Cheltenham and Gloucestershire on a tracked service.
Rugby Kit Is a Durability Problem
Gloucestershire's rugby culture runs deep, from the professional game down through a dense network of community clubs. Match kit takes more punishment than almost any other team garment — gripped, pulled, dragged through mud and washed hot after every fixture. That rules out surface decoration: a printed number or sponsor logo will not last a season. Sublimation puts the design into the polyester itself, leaving nothing on the surface to lift, which is why it dominates match shirts.
Building the Club Range
A club needs four things with genuinely different requirements.
- Match shirts — sublimated polyester, numbered, with sponsor placement fixed in writing before artwork approval.
- Training kit — ordered in greater quantity than match kit because it is worn far more often.
- Coaching and touchline wear — embroidered softshells and fleeces, specified for standing in weather rather than playing.
- Club leisurewear — embroidered polos and hoodies sold to members and supporters, often funding the rest of the range.
Sponsors Are the Usual Delay
Almost every late club kit order traces to the same cause: sponsors confirm late, send low-resolution files, or change placement after proofing, while the season start does not move. Collect every sponsor asset before starting artwork, confirm placement in writing, and check each logo at actual size. Sublimated kit sits at the longer end of production at around 15–20 working days from artwork approval, plus 2–5 working days delivery — so the margin for late artwork is smaller than it looks.
Engineering and Rural Work
Gloucestershire's aerospace and engineering cluster orders embroidered polos, fleeces and softshells for daily wear — a durability specification where stitch outlasts print under frequent hot washing. Beyond the towns, the county's rural and land-based businesses order gilets, fleeces and softshells in darker colourways for year-round outdoor work.
“"A club can control its design, its budget and its deadline. It cannot control the sponsor, so ask them first."”
Minimums and Consolidation
Orders start at 20 pieces with sizes mixed freely inside the run, which suits a squad with a wide size range. Bulk discounts reach up to around 40% as quantities rise, so a club ordering all four categories in one run — or coordinating across age groups — reaches a materially better per-piece cost and keeps kit consistent between sides. Model it in the free instant price calculator and preview the full layout in the free Design Studio before approving.